This season already started with a handful of much-talked-about anime, but none were perhaps as hotly anticipated as Attack on Titan ( Shingeki no Kyojin ). Production I.G subsidiary Studio Wit takes up the task of adapting Hajime Isayama's popular Attack on Titan manga and, …Read more »
A decade is missing. Ten years. One tenth of a century. One seventh of my median life expectancy. Where has the time gone? Has it really been so long since the last time I watched Animation Runner Kuromi ? So much has changed in the …Read more »
The season is still young, but Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet ( Suisei no Gargantia ) has about as effective an opening episode as one could ask for. The spring series comes from Production I.G, with Kazuya Murata ( Fullmetal Alchemist: The Sacred Star of …Read more »
From Up on Poppy Hill is Studio Ghibli’s latest feature and the highest grossing box office hit in Japan in 2011. It’s the second film directed by Goro Miyazaki ( Tales From Earthsea ), son of Hayao Miyazaki, and it was shown in the U.S. …Read more »
Based on the manga by the renowned duo of Kazuo Koike and Ryoichi Ikegami, Crying Freeman deals with Yō Hinomura, a pottery artist who accidentally stumbles onto evidence of a series of murders by a Chinese crime syndicate called the 108 Dragons. Instead of killing …Read more »
The used anime section is a cultural wasteland. Younger anime fans may not remember the days when anime on American home video didn’t generally come in full-season or half-season chunks. In the late Nineties and early Aughts, a typical twenty-six episode television series would run …Read more »
I don’t know what strange stream of consciousness led me to think about the Streamline Pictures trailer reel with its oh-so-smooth narrator promising us the best in “state of the art Japanese animation," but that thought triggered a cascade of memories, none more prevalent than …Read more »
In the very first episode of Lagrange: The Flower of Rin-ne , we get robots, aliens, and girls stripping. Not necessarily in that order. Ditsy high schooler Madoka is all about her Jersey Club, but soon she’s going to have bigger things to be concerned …Read more »
I’ll let you in on a little secret: I used to be a collector. Not in the sense that I simply owned a collection—I still do—but in the sense that I used to seek out difficult-to-find anime home video releases just because I could. In …Read more »
Orbital battle stations! Improbable, insectoid mecha! C-beams glittering in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate! Dangers, drama, explosions! None of these will be appearing in today’s Vault of Error offering: Prefectural Earth Defense Force. Well, none except for the explosions. Can’t have an anime without …Read more »
If November 2012 belonged to any one film it was unquestionably Evangelion 3.0: You Can (Not) Redo . The Evangelion hype machine caused many to forget about the release of another significant (artistically, if not financially) theatrical anime film: Gothicmade . The name Five Star …Read more »
There was a moment of awkward silence once the house lights came up in the theater after the end credits of Evangelion 3.0 : You Can (Not) Redo . To Evangelion veterans who were there the first time around, it was probably a familiar feeling. …Read more »
Halloween comes but once a year, and what better way to celebrate the bewitching season than with an anime about things that go bump in the night? Unfortunately, very few horror-themed anime receive commercial releases in English-speaking countries, and most of them have more in …Read more »
Hyped across the board as “the next Evangelion,” the brilliant Puella Magi Madoka Magica certainly has turned heads since it aired at the beginning of 2011. So it was no surprise when animation studio Shaft and series director Akiyuki Shinbo announced that they would be …Read more »
Humanity Has Declined ( Jinrui wa Suitai Shimashita )—based on a series of light novels by Romeo Tanaka—has a title that's much more dire than its subject matter. What sounds like a post-apocalyptic pity party is really a somewhat nonsensical comedy with a bright color …Read more »
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